Halloween brings crisp weather, tasty treats, and a chance to show your ghoulish best! Here are some tips to make your Halloween celebrations fun and safe this year!
Before You Go:
• Make sure everyone is well-fed and ready to collect that candy! (Full tummies may prevent eating treats before home inspection.)
• Inspect costumes for fit and mobility, and make sure your little monster can see well enough to navigate in the dark.
• Inspect costumes for fit and mobility, and make sure your little monster can see well enough to navigate in the dark.
• Is your ninja a master of stealth in your living room? Make sure to add some reflective tape and/or lit accessories to make sure your trick-or-treater is visible to others.
• Is there such a thing as too many accessories? Make sure your child has a hand for their treat sack/pail, and a hand free for any accidental trips or spills (or maybe a flash light!) (Also consider: do I want to end up carrying that for blocks and blocks?)
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| With so many fun light options (flashlights, glowsticks, or these fun and rechargeable friends) there's no reason for your child to get lost in the dark this year! |
While You’re Out:
• Travel in a group, and always with adult supervision.
• Keep to well-lit sidewalks, don’t cut through yards, and only approach homes with their porch/front lights on.
• Obey all traffic signals, and make sure to cross at intersections! (Drivers are expecting ghosts and goblins, but prefer to not encounter them darting out from between parked cars.)
• Save all candy and treats to be eaten at home, after they’ve been inspected by an adult.
When You’re Home Again:
• Inspect all candy, removing choking hazards for the little ones and watching for signs of tampering. (At this point, my dad would also remove all Snickers bars and my mom would get anything with coconut.)
...at this point recommendations can be made about rationing the treats, but we leave that to you to decide! (My siblings and I were always allowed to keep everything and eat it as we pleased. However, my parents would also pay us by the pound for any candy we decided to sell to them. Clever.)
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